Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[KevinGage]

On the plus side:   We won't go down.  At least 4/5 worse teams than us in the division this year.

70% possession conceded against another Premiership side.  Shocking.  Maybe Alex thinks there isn't a huge amount wrong, and it was just two individual errors that allowed Dr Alban to score tonight.  If he does think that, he's delusional. 

We have the personnel to at least go to WHL and have a go.  We didn't.  Buck stops with the manager.

[hipkiss92]

Heskey why? Hutton why? Gabby not up front why? Collins playing why? Bannan on a drink driving charge ahead of Ireland why? Gutless, embarrassing that was the worst game of football I have ever witnessed. Xmas came early for Spurs. Get your coat Mcliesh and slip out the back door.

Because a drunk Bannan will still be better than Ireland

[dicedlam]

I'm sorry, but this bloke should not be managing Aston Villa.

[Villanation]

Useless, hopeless, tactical dithering and clueless.

I thought we made Spurs look way better than they actually are, we didn't put pressure on them, allowed them way to much time, puts you of football.

Who's next for a bore fest.

[eric woolban woolban]

Utter, utter garbage.

The only players to come out with any credit for me were Herd, Cuellar and at a push Dunne.

Awful selection, awful tactics, awful manager. Randy you lost the plot when you brought in that buffoon.

The club is now a shambles. When the Villa fans were singing 'going down my Lord', you could read that two ways.

[midnite]

Much as I hate losing, I can accept losing if we at least try and win and go down fighting.

The team selection and lack of substitutions or tactical changes means we never even attempted to win this match. Complete fucking disgrace.

My thoughts exactly. I don't want to lose, but i can take losing better when at least we've tried to play football and try to win matches. This was an embarrassment and not how we play football at AVFC. I really did think AM would change his managing style from the blues when he had better players to manage with us. How wrong i was

[Dante Lavelli]

Well we certainly parked the moped tonight. That'll learn 'em.

Absolute dross.

Very funny.  Nice work.

[PaulWinch again]

This is the first time I've doubted him as the manager in himself. I've been doubting the club and its direction a lot, but even though we've been stripped of resources we have enough available to make a much better fist of it than that. Shocking Alex, completely unacceptable.

[Jockey Randall]

Much as I hate losing, I can accept losing if we at least try and win and go down fighting.

The team selection and lack of substitutions or tactical changes means we never even attempted to win this match. Complete fucking disgrace.

Pretty much summed up how I feel. There's no excuse for not competing. Spurs weren't even that good and should be annoyed at themselves for not bagging 6 or 7. I've been behind Big Feck but some of those guys tonight really looked like they couldn't be arsed and that is not acceptable.

[pauliewalnuts]

I've seen plenty of performances that bad in 35 years or so, but I haven't seen many quite so gutless.

McLeish lived up to every ounce of his reputation for negativity tonight.

It was thoroughly embarrassing.

[PeterWithesShin]

Utter, utter garbage.

The only players to come out with any credit for me were Herd, Cuellar and at a push Dunne.

Awful selection, awful tactics, awful manager. Randy you lost the plot when you brought in that buffoon.

The club is now a shambles. When the Villa fans were singing 'going down my Lord', you could read that two ways.

Weren't they singing that at Rednkapp? I thought it was:

Pay your tax my lord, pay your tax.
Going down my lord, going down.

[Compass]

I honestly think we won't finish higher than 15th.

[andyh]

Well, there are defeats and there are defeats.
That was yet another gutless, shambolic, and inept peformance.

But, worse than all of that, it was COWARDLY

The manager appears to have instilled in the team a 'never can win' mentality.
We are set up NOT to win, but worse than that, we don't even go through the motions of trying to.

I hate Mcleish.
I hate what he has turned us into.

I hope he turns it round, or that Lerner realises what a shocking appoinment he has made, before its too late.

[Rigadon]

I've seen plenty of performances that bad in 35 years or so, but I haven't seen many quite so gutless.

McLeish lived up to every ounce of his reputation for negativity tonight.

It was thoroughly embarrassing.

Sadly, yes.

[Tony Boucher]

Well that was about the most god-awful pile of crap I've ever seen.  Fortunately Spurs didn't bother too much & we got away with a 2-0.
We seemed more than happy to hang on to the 2-0.  I can't think of a more limp-wristed performance, ever.
That was a team selected to lose & we duly obliged.